In the final episode of the season, Robin and Anna discuss the value Love Your Neighbor as Yourself (V’ahavta l’Reacha Kamocha). What sounds like a sweet and easy idea turns out to be a really complicated one. Anna shares a story about taking her family to a local Black Lives Matter march and seeing her neighbors in a new way.

Robin gets a turn to be the guest this episode. She talks about how difficult she found this concept, especially when facing possible threats to her queer family. Anna and Robin share about an especially heated conversation they had around this value, which resulted in yelling and banging on the table. Ultimately, they came to see each other’s perspectives. Robin talks about reframing the idea from the word “love,” which felt very weighted, to “compassion.”

With this new understanding of Love Your Neighbor, Robin and Anna challenge each other to learn more about what people in their own neighborhoods need. Robin commits to meeting her new neighbors and seeing how she can be helpful in welcoming them. Anna commits to talking with her kids about what they’d like to learn more about their neighbors to become more helpful.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• how “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” can be applied as a value

• different understandings of the word “love”

• Robin’s experience in a queer family that earned its legal status over time

• how to find compassion for others

Anna and Robin discuss the value of remembering (zachor) especially when it comes to difficult histories. The episode begins with a story about Robin talking about the Holocaust with her son in preschool. To lighten the mood, Anna challenges Robin with a game of remembering milestones in history.

This episodes guests bring experience teaching difficult histories to to young children. Adina Baseman Sharfstein, a 5th grade public school teacher in Florida, is a Holocaust educator, curriculum writer, and teacher trainer. Heena Mcafferty is a 2nd grade public school teacher.

Guests Heena and Adina share about how they teach their students about the Holocaust and Native American history. They share the importance of balancing what to share with students as well as focusing on what not to teach.

Robin and Anna both make commitments to talk with their children about the Thanksgiving mythology and ensure they know a more accurate history.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• how to think of “remembering” as a value

• how to discuss difficult history with young children

• techniques for teaching children

• choosing what to discuss and even more so what not to discuss

• books and resources to help talk to children about inclusivity and helping others

Robin and Anna explore the value chesed (loving kindness). Anna shares part of her grandmother’s eulogy, a person she says best embodied the idea of loving kindness. Robin brings a Family-Feud-style game about sweets — guess the top answer!

This episode’s guests are two representatives of Children and Adult Disability and Educational Services (CADES), a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities, and the lives of their families. Jessie Robinson is the Director of Development and Revell Martin is the parent of a CADES student. Jessie shares stories of the impact CADES has had on the individuals it serves, their families, the staff of the organization, and the larger community. Revell shares her experience raising a child with disabilities and feeling the warm loving-kindness of the CADES organization.

Anna and Robin commit to enacting true kindness with their children — not just simple niceness, but truly looking for the kind of care others need.